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      • Rabbits
      • Chickens
      • Goats
      • Beekeeping
      • Pigs
    • Garden
      • Herbal Academy
      • Beginner Gardening Course
      • Monthly Planting Guide
      • Resources + Information
      • ‘How to grow’ series
      • Seasonal Eating + Growing
      • Food Forest Gardening
    • From Scratch Food
      • Sourdough
      • Dehydrating
      • Preserving
      • Fermenting
      • Recipes
      • Woodstove Cooking
    • Homestead Anywhere
      • Join the Revolution!
      • 33 Traditional Skills
      • Books Every Homesteader Should Own
    • Green Living
      • Plastic Free Gifts – Ideas for all ages!
      • Herbal Academy
      • Our Plastic Free Journey
    • Home & Finance
      • Start a Blog
      • Frugal Living
      • Make Your Own
        • Soap, Skin Care and Cleaning products
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        • DIY
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Chickens

Keeping chickens is one of the fundamental homesteading skills that is worth learning. Hens can provide cheap and easy protein to feed the family and they make wonderful pets. Here are all our chicken keeping resources.

Growing your own food is brilliant, and adding chickens to your backyard improves your self sufficiency and resilience. But how do you protect your garden from the chickens? Protecting the garden from free range hens is a really common problem for most backyard chicken owners! Chickens love to look for their own food, to dig and scratch and dust bathe in bare soil. Not to mention snack on fresh young green plants. 

Protecting the garden from Chickens: How to keep hens from destroying the garden

Frugal chicken feed ideas Keeping chickens in your backyard can be expensive. Check out these tips for keeping the cost down raising hens for eggs #piwakawakavalley

Saving money feeding chickens: 15 Effective Ways to Cut your chicken feed bill in half!

Simple, natural methods that really work!

How to Control Mites, Fleas and Ticks Effective Natural Remedies for Goats, Chickens and other Animals

how to feed chickens for less money

How to Feed Chickens for Less Money: Cheap Chicken Food

how to incubate eggs at home

Incubating Eggs at Home: How to Incubate Chicken Eggs

What to do with an abundance of eggs: 100+ egg heavy recipes

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Best Backyard Chickens for Beginners Guide: Everything you need to know about laying hens

10 Top Tips On How To Make Chickens Happy

10 Top Tips On How To Make Chickens Happy: Have Happier Hens

Chickens are easy to keep, but make sure youa re not feeding your chickens these 3 foods! #backyeardchickens #keepingchickens #chickens #homesteading #homesteads #piwakawakavalley

Can Chickens Eat Bread? 3 Things you Should NOT Feed your Chickens

Natural remedies for sick chickens that really work #chickens #hen #rooster #keepingchickens #homesteading #homestead #piwakawakavalley

5 Natural Home Remedies for Sick Chickens | natural antibiotics for chickens

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